As you all know, I completely adore and respect Dr Brené Brown.
This is an animation of one of her talks about the difference between empathy and sympathy:
Well, I'm trying to be empathetic, but I often pull out the sympathetic, because wait, that's better than apathetic, right? Yeah, sometimes, "At least I'm not being apathetic, would you like a sandwich?" is the best I can do. And you know what? It's OKAY!
I tend to be empathetic more than sympathetic. It's not something I terribly enjoy.
ReplyDelete